Matthews: Palin like a “mail-order bride”

posted at 8:48 am on March 31, 2009 by Ed Morrissey

Remember when Hillary Clinton supporters accused Chris Matthews and MS-NBC of sexism in their coverage of the Democratic primaries, as the network became the Barack Obama Channel in 2007? Matthews has apparently decided to pick an easier target — one a lot less likely to get defended by PUMAs after the election. In an exchange with Howard Fineman last night, Matthews (not seen) says that Sarah Palin was like a mail-order bride for John McCain during the general election:

MATTHEWS: What happened between those two?

FINEMAN: Uh, it was a lost weekend that didn’t go beyond the weekend. [LAUGHTER]

MATTHEWS: He thought she was something special [crosstalk] but she wasn’t the genuine article.

FINEMAN: You know what? He had no idea, with all due respect to the Senator, he had no idea what he was getting. They came into the convention, and I was covering it closely at the time –

MATTHEWS: Was she a mail order bride? [CROSSTALK]

FINEMAN: Practically! He really didn’t know who she was!

Matthews (and Fineman, too) actually take two shots at sexual analogies here. At first, they discuss Palin as a one-night stand from a bar, and then they switch to the mail-order bride meme. If Matthews had talked about Hillary in such terms … well, actually, he did, which is why Hillary’s supporters objected so much during the campaign. It’s not exactly a classy moment here, either, considering Palin’s status as Governor of Alaska. Just what does a woman have to do to get Matthews to stop thinking of her as a sex object, anyway? Marry him?

No one will be surprised to see Matthews do this, but having Newsweek’s Howard Fineman busting a gut and joining in the fun may be a bit of a surprise. I thought Fineman had a little more class than this.

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I channel surf, because I like to know what the jerks are up to. Can’t make it through full segments of Matthews, Olbermann or Maddow, but at least I get a feel for their bias and malicious targeting of normal people.

Don’t you wonder why none of these shills drawn into Matthews’ sexist web have the courage to say that they are not going to go there? It would be simple enough to do, and would speak volumes about their character.(but they’d never be invited back I guess)

I’d like to put this turd on a rail, along with Bowel Movement (I mean Bill Maher), tarred and feathered, and ride them out of town, legs tingling all the way. Actually, if we find a way to get this done, we’re going to need a lot of rails, tar, feathers. The sleeping giant is awakening! Let’s Roll!

I know I should ignore these two ass wipes, but wow they really know which buttons to push. I think it keeps going back to McCain. Just refuse to answer the question, or just tell the truth. Sarah is a conservative, and will be disliked by the leftist’s, and by progressive Republican’s. This is a given, and something us Sarah fan’s are going to have to face. Well I say we stand strong in our conservative value’s, and never lose sight of what we are fighting to preserve. I do not plan on it being my fault when one day we all wake up and do not recognize our own Country.

Didn’t waste time watching this excrement. Nothing “thrill up my leg” says is worth hearing and when I looked at the still shot, my first thought was that Howard Fineman of Newsweek had been checked into a North Carolina nursing home. Presumably, by relatives.

Honestly, who even watches MSNBC anymore? Their ratings are in the toilet, just like CNN.

Funny, I remember a libtard telling me right after the election that FoxNews & Rush would now go into oblivion. The whole country had moved left, there was no market for a right-of-center broadcast on TV or Radio.

Instead, Rush & FoxNews have record ratings. MSNBC, CNN and liberal talk radio has miniscule ratings and sinking lower each and every day….

So where is The Women’s Media Center on this one? I mean they were all over Bill O’Reilly in regards to Helen Thomas – and this is far worse – sexism at it’s finest. Ohhhhh, wait, that’s right, they only defend liberal women – oh I forgot that.

Well anyways, I don’t know about you all, but I am fed up with this double standard between liberal women and conservative women. I will be dropping The Women’s Media Center an email, asking where they stand on this and pointing out their liberal bias. Anyone gonna join me?

Hmm … I’m torn. I want to give credit to Matthews for coming up with an analogy that was actually on point (at least for what they were discussing) and funny, even if slightly un-PC. Then again, feminazi hypocrisy never ceases to amaze me as libtards everywhere attempt to turn Palin into a sex object to delegitimize her, or something.

One thing I admired about Palin as a candidate was her ability to be “old-school” feminine without compromising her presence as a potential leader. Perhaps the libtard women were just a teeny bit jealous that their libtard beta-male men seemed to be drooling over “The Thrilla from Wasilla”?

Jeez I work for NBC and won’t watch this pervert. I don’t understand why everyone is so surprised by Howard just joining in He’s been sniffin up to “Softball” Matthews for years. Sarah has more class in one of her pinkies than either of these pieces of excrement put together.

From an article on another blog, the Dems think they won the Limbaugh-Obama dust up. They are continuing on with it along with trashing The Good Guv from Alaska. I don’t see any benefit to them for keeping on this meme. All it has done is raise Rush’s audience. If they keep bashing Palin, then as with the drinking game sending another check to Sarah’s PAC seems appropriate.